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Richard Barnum
Chunky, the Happy Hippo: His Many Adventures
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338077479
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CHAPTER I
CHUNKY HAS A LAUGH
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Once upon a time, some years ago, but not so long that you could not easily remember if you tried, there lived in a muddy river of a far-off country called Africa, a great, big, animal-baby named “Chunky.” He was not a fish, though he could stay under water, not breathing at all, for maybe ten minutes, and that is why he swam in the muddy river so much. He did not mind the mud in the river. He rather liked it, for when he sank away down under the dark, brown water no one could see him.
And Chunky did not want any of the lions or tigers, or perhaps the black African hunters to see him, for they might have hurt him.
But, for all that, Chunky was a happy, jolly, little animal-baby, and would soon grow up to be a big animal boy, for he ate pecks and pecks of the rich, green grass that grew on the bottom and banks of the African river.